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Mesoscale Discussion 180

February 28, 2011Bladen County, Robeson County, Sampson County, North Carolina; 9 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 28, 2011, 7:36 PM EST for Bladen County, Robeson County, Sampson County, North Carolina; 9 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 28, 2011, 7:36 PM EST (00:36 UTC)
Expired: Feb 28, 2011, 9:00 PM EST
In force: 84 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Bladen County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Bamberg County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Florence County, SC, Marion County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 35Feb 28, 7:50 PM EST

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -366 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1048 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 28, 7:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bladen, Columbus, Robeson	3 hr
Feb 28, 8:42 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bladen, Robeson, Sampson	63 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2011 Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2011 Every mesoscale discussion in 2011

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.